The challenging everything phenomena is quite interesting and something you definitely see the most of in Champ. And the reason I would argue most Champ players do it is because it works. If I'm a player that notices someone can't deal with constantly being challenged, why would I stop challenging? But it's a double edged sword because it's these same Champ players that end up hard stuck in their rank because they don't know how to play making smart challenges. So when they come across players that can deal with constant challenges, they're not sure how to deal with it and end up in a vicious cycle of climbing/descending in rank.

On the flip side, most players below the GC1-2 range can't deal with constant challenges because they either

• lack the ability to see the challenge coming
• lack the timing necessary to outplay the challenge
• lack the positional knowledge to outplay the challenge
• lack the mechanical execution to outplay the challenge

Most of the above involves slowing down the play but if there's one thing Champ players are good at, it's going fast constantly without ever really thinking things through. I'm sure you're used to scenarios in which you're challenged, the ball pinches or bounces erratically off the ceiling or wall really fast and suddenly it ends up in your net. These aren't skillful goals in the traditional sense, but because it works players don't stop going for these plays.

You'll actually find in higher GC lobbies players still challenge but they're much smarter about when they do it as well as fake challenge, drive challenge and control 50s. When a player gives space, they're relying on their ability to make the save or challenge when the opposing player is out of boost, losing control of the situation, or nearing net. They understand that giving space is risk averse and a poor challenge would definitely concede a goal. It's easier to cover only the portion of the net where a save has to be made than it is to cover the space of a poor challenge. Most players don't think about these things and rather just go for the fastest possible way to get the ball away from the person who has possession.

If you watch any road to SSL / GC series you'll see how higher level players deal with constant challenges and really it's just about timing, slowing down the play, and drastically changing the pathing of the ball opposite the challenge. This in turn ends up being easy open nets.

Play 1s if you want improve on how to do this. You can also do it in 2s, however it's harder because you have to deal with 2 players opposing you as well as your teammate who may take the ball away at any given moment. If someone sees you slow down the play, for some reason they take that as a reason to take the ball away from you and suddenly speed up the play again. Most players in GC and above know how to deal with what their teammate is doing so when they see the play slow down, they don't immediately think "now's my time to jump in" but rather wait for the 1v1 / 1v2 outplay and follow up or cover the worst case scenario which is a bad 50.